Week 17

Week 17 (17th May)
Its been a busy old week but a fantastic one!! I'm a bit late writing this but hey.

Our tiny cakies is about 5.2-5.5 inches (13 cm) long and weighs about 5 ounces. His/her skeleton is mostly rubbery cartilage, which will harden later. A protective substance called myelin slowly begins to wrap around the spinal cord. Huge changes continue to take place within him/her. This week fat begins to form and will continue to do so until he/she is born. His/her eyes are facing more forward and his/her ears are now close to their final position. This is another picture i found for this week.

OMG! We've won a pushchair! (18th May)

OMG!!! We've won a brand spanking new Maclaren pushchair, carseat and rocker too!! Woohoo!!

I'm so happy today, My boyfriends mum, nan and i all entered the Maclaren competition at the baby show on friday and his nan got a call this morning to tell her that she'd won!

My boyfriend is a Blackpool fan (don't hold it against him, lol) so he loves the orange. These pictures really don't do it justice, i'll have to actually take some proper photos when i get my hands on it. I still can't believe it, its worth about £440!
This is the pushchair that i liked the most when i was looking as its got a front and back suspension and will last until out little one is a bit older too. It's not like some of the big bulky travel systems that i've seen. Yey!!

The Baby Show

I won 2 tickets in a competition on The Baby Show Facebook group and then i bought one for about £11 i think so i could go with my boyfriend's mum and nan. We went early ish (got there just after 10am) It took us about an hour to get there from here in oxfordshire so not bad at all really.

We got some great freebies including:
- Persil washing powder and comfort fabric softener - went back a few times for these.
- Herbal nappy rash cream, big tube
- A lovely baby towel from SMA
- Loads of huggies nappies (although these were for about 6 months).
- A Car Shade, baby spoon and lovely fabric bag from the government/money people
- A sample size bottle of Johnson's baby shampoo and sachet of baby lotion.
- Nurofen medicine syringes
- Some sample sachets of Avent Baby Shampoo, Body Cream and breast pads.
- A 7 pack of pregnacare tablets, sample sachet of cream and a pen.
- Infant Neck Roll and another fabric bag

Offer wise i subscribed to a Prima Pregnancy and baby magazine for £20 (normally £35) and got 6 free Tommee Tippee baby bottles with powdered milk holders that fit inside the bottles so you can make them up on the go, and 2 dummies (which is also worth £30 too) - bargain!

My also got a Winnie the Pooh Moses basket, A gorgeous cot bedding set with a hedgehog and bee on it and a matching baby sleeping bag. Some Tommee Tippee thermos bottle covers to use whilst out and teething toys which were half price. A gorgeously soft teddy and a few other little bits. lol. We did stop for a cup of tea at the Babycentre sponsored Cravings Cafe and we all had a jacket potato for lunch from the main restaurant.

All in all we all had a lovely time and my boyfriend's mum and nan both really enjoyed it too.

Weeks 13-16

13 weeks (19th April):
Had my booking appointment with the midwife on tuesday at 12+2 and she couldn't get any blood, she seemed quite nervous but i didn't mind, i just had to go back on thursday which i thought would be the end of it but no such luck. The nurse/ blood lady couldn't get any either. So had to make another appointment with the practice sister who thankfully managed to get some blood, third time lucky for them!

This week our babies length is 7-9cm and weighs 35g. There is a milky membrane that surrounds our tiny cakies. My placenta provides most of its nutrients and oxygen that out baby needs. Tissue that will form our babies bones is being laid down, especially around the head and limbs. Our babies eyelids meet and fuse together and they will not open again for nearly 4 months.

14 weeks (26th April):
Went public on facebook this week which felt fab! It was so nice. I have also now told my boss. I was absolutely sh*tting a brick before! I was soooo nervous about it but i have to say that it feels like a massive relief now she knows! She seemed like she was actually really pleased for me. She was really nice about it, not that i thought she would be horrible anyway but shes only been my boss for about 7 weeks so i don't know her too well. I've been at the company for a over a year but changed jobs due to my old job being made redundant.
Overall i've been feeling alright, have had achey legs/feet sometimes but hey, its all good.
Our little cakies is 9-10cm, about the size of an average fist and weighs about 50g. Our little cakies face is becoming more developed. About now, he or she can grasp, squint, frown, grimace and may even be able to suck its thumb. Researchers believe these and other movements probably correspond to the development of impulses in the brain. How cool is that. Our little cakies is starting to produce urine which he/she is helping to create more amniotic fluid, also he/she is starting to inhale and exhale amniotic fluid so practicing breathing for when he/she is born, kinda gross eh?

15 weeks (3rd May):
Loving the bank holiday weekend! Plus i've felt some flutterings too so that might be our little cakies moving. My doppler arrived too. We tried it out before dinner and it was fantastic! We heard out babys heartbeat after a little searching. He/she is still down quite low, on my right hand side where i have felt the movement.

This week our little cakies is still small enough to fit into the palm of my hand. He/she measures nearly 4 inches / 11 centimetres long crown to rump and weighs about 2.5oz/70g. He/ she can suck his/her thumb and supposedly handedness preference is already decided by now. How mad is that?

Week 16 (10th May)

Had my 16 week midwife appointment, I also got all my blood results back, all perfectly normal. I'm O Positive which is good and my iron count was fantastic so i'm not anaemic. I had my blood taken so they could do the triple test as they couldn't take my nuchal measurement at my scan as the baby was very low and kept moving. They managed to get my blood first time, i showed them the vein they would have to use so it was all good. Also i got to listen to my baby's heartbeat again, so cute and he/she had moved up a bit which is great!
At this point, our little cakies is about 4.5-5inches long and weighs about 2.8oz. In the next 3 weeks or so he/she will undergo a big growth spurt and double in weight.

Off to the Baby Show in Birmingham on friday, i'm very excited.

My 12 week scan (15th April)

PHEW!!! We had our 12 week scan today and everything was ok.

Our tiny cakies was moving a lot and was low down in my pelvis so they strugged to get a good picture but it looked good on the screen. It was so nice and a massive relief to know that everything is ok and that really is a baby in there. Mad i know. It really does make all the difference and it just goes to show that you don't have to have loads of pregnancy symptoms either! I've not suffered with morning sickness really at all. I know i am one of the lucky ones.
These were our scan pictures

Weeks 10-12

Week 10 (29th March):
Woohoo, double figures.
This week has been a bit uneventful really, not doing much in my new job as i'm waiting for the other new person to start to our training can properly begin. I am totally dreading telling my boss that i'm pregnant, but i don't have to do it yet so its fine.

This week our little cakies is 25-35mm long and weighs about 3-5g so he/she is about the size of a small plum now. He/she has taste and tooth buds at this point and will continue to develop. The brain will continue to grow at an amazing rate and nearly a quarter of a million neurons are produced every minute. How mad is that! His/her heart is now completely developed too.

Week 11 (5th April):
This week has been alright, it seems to of actually gone quite quickly thankfully. This weekend we haven't really done anything as my boyfriend has had man flu, well at least he thinks he has. I have been feeling slightly less tired this week which has been a bonus. Our cakies is now the size of a lime, Length wise seems to vary from site to site but its somewhere between 1.2 - 2.4 inches and weighs about 8 grams at this point. Our little cakies fingernails start to develop this week and its intestines are developing too. All its vital organs are now developed too and will continue to grow in size and efficiency in the coming weeks.

Week 12 (12th April):
Woohoo! Reached the magic 12 week mark. Phew!!
Had a fab trip up north, we visited Manchester and Liverpool. It was nice to have a few days away and my boyfriend and i spent some quality time together. It was a tiring few days but we really enjoyed ourselves.
We also bought our first baby purchases!
I just couldn't resist them. The one on the right is from the Disney shop, i saw it a few weeks ago and resisted but when i reached the magic 12 week mark i thought what the hell!
According to the info this week our baby is about 2.5 inches long and weighs around 14 grams ish. My uterus is now too large to remain completely in my pelvis. Also had a few moments of pregnancy brain over the last couple of days. My boyfriend thinks i am going a bit mad, its funny though.
Scan this week, i'm so nervous but so excited at the same time!

Weeks 5-9

Week 5 (22nd Feb):
Well as the title suggests, i'm 5 weeks today. According to one of the pregnancy calendars, our baby looks something like this at the moment: Its been just over a week since we got our positive result and its starting to sink in now. It feels so weird to think, i'm pregnant and in 35 weeks (ish) i'll have my own baby, a small piece of me and my boyfriend together, something that we've made. We've decided to call the baby our little cakies for the moment as not to keep on just calling it a bean. According to what i've read, our tiny cakies is about 2 mm long at the moment.

Week 6 (1st March):
Well this week we've told our parents and siblings. We considered keeping it to ourselves until the 12 week mark but decided that if anything happens we'd rather have their support. Everyone is absolutely over the moon, all very surprised but hey, thats not a bad thing. Weirdly when we told my boyfriends mum she told us about something that had happened at work that week: She had a set of booties on her desk to give to someone and a colleague asked her if she had something to tell them, to which she replied with "i know i look pregnant, but I'm not, if anything I'll be a grandmother soon". Ha ha ha! Little did she know.

Overall i've been feeling fine, not really any different to be honest. No morning sickness or anything.

Week 7 (08 March):
Well it was a long week with everything thats been happening at work - redundancies unfortunately. My job had been made redundant although i have been offered another position within the company thankfully!
Overall i've felt quite tired this week and a couple of days i came home from work and had a nap which made me feel much better. I also got my scan date through this week, its on the 15th April at 2:50pm. Yey! I'll be 12 weeks and 3 days by then.

Baby wise: At the beginning of this week, the baby is approximately 4 to 5 mm and by the end of the week it has more than doubled to 11 to 13 mm and weights approximately 0.03 ounces. awww! so tiny! Our baby's leg and arm buds are longer now and they have divided into segments where the hands and feet will be. The hands and feet also have an area where the fingers and toes will begin to form. At this point of your pregnancy, the heart is bulging from the body and it has divided into right and left chambers. So much development already!

Week 8 (15th March):
Well week 8 and i've never felt so tired in my life! Out of 5 work days last week, 4 of them i came home and had a nap, the other one i was in bed by 9pm as i couldn't keep my eyes open. This week our baby is about the size of a pinto bean and is approximately 12-20mm long and weighs about 1g. Our babies fingers and toes are now present although they may still be webbed at the moment.

Week 9 (22nd March):
Well this week has been a total blur to me, i started a new job but have still been tying up lose ends from my old job at the same time. This week has been fab though, i went for a gorgeous meal with the girlies i used to work with which made a really nice change.
Saturday i spent the day with my mum and sister as they came over to visit me, kinda like an early mothers day. We went and had Frankie and Bennys for lunch, then went to the cinema to see Confessions of a shopoholic (not all that good but my mum really enjoyed it). Then randomly we went through the car wash which my mum was super excited about as she hadn't been through one before, weird i know!!

Our little cakies is about the size of a medium green olive now. The crow-to-rump length is 20 mm weighs about 2 grams. He/she is also starting to move although i wont be able to feel it yet.